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title: However, I’ve got back to my right size: the next thing is, to get i… — Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · tree and pragmatics
description: However, I’ve got back to my right size: the next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden—how _is_ that to be done, I wonder?” Who acts: I, next thing, that. A sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar, sentence 117

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However, I’ve got back to my right size: the next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden—how \_is\_ that to be done, I wonder?”

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**Who acts:** I, next thing, that · **What happens:** get back, be, do, wonder · **To what, where:** beautiful garden

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This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, next thing, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11:6:117
# text = However, I’ve got back to my right size: the next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden—how _is_ that to be done, I wonder?”
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get back** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | to my right size *result*; however *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to size=Result |
| 2 | **is** | present | the next thing |  |  | that beautiful garden |  | get *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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